Here goes…it was time to take my writing online with a site and blog. I have come a long way since being one of the last group of student victims to punch cards in Fortran and wait in line for a card reader at U of Waterloo to get a ream of paper output.
The time has come to find my way through multiple layers of new program menus and take on the learning curve of all kinds of tech terms (divs, code, RSS, FTP, simple scripts, tags, templates…) so that I can go back to focusing on what I really enjoy, writing.
The blog title is an intentional play on words. Ghosts in the machine can be random bits of code that interact and become sentient over time, but it sounds rather haunting. The German ‘geist’ has a meaning closer to spirit rather than ghost, and it just sounds like it has more guts. I intend to blog (hey – it’s a noun and a verb!) about my favourite topics, which may seem unrelated at first. I hope they connect over time and take on more meaning as a collective.
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen says to Alice, “ It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
Synchronicity indeed.
